“To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.” PeopleKnowsFeelsShouldMindStoriesFeelingsHappensWould BeAbleSidesEmotionNeededCapableSittingConcernedTablesOneselfIntellectNobleAffectedColossal Author:John Ruskin
“The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.” HappensEasyProgressNeededShapesBackgroundsOver ItCompositionMessy Author:Myfanwy Pavelic
“Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.” IfsShouldMindKindEndsMatterStatesGovernmentHappensIndividualNeededFunctionPrejudiceChiefsOfficialsIndividualismInitiativeConformInsistenceGovernment Officials Book:Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18 Source: Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18
“It was easy to blame other people for treating me in ways I didn't like, but now I was seeing that I was the one at fault. The only way you can be mistreated is by allowing yourself to be mistreated, and that was something I did over and over again. Somehow, I needed to find that glimmer of self-respect, buried deep inside, that would allow me to say: I am never going to let that happen to me again. I needed to learn how to stand up for myself in a different way, but I didn't know how.” PeopleKnowsWayDifferentSelfHappensEasyKnow HowSeeingNeededBlameFaultsDifferent WaysSelf RespectAllowingBuriedDeep InsideMistreated Author:Jennifer Lopez